The whole city searched or something, and I thought it would make the whole city nervous, but it turned out to be much more stable and calm than Rorschach expected.

There were no soldiers patrolling back and forth in the streets, and the magic armor was parked in its garage, and flying objects flew over the city less often than before.

Yesterday's crisis was as if it hadn't happened.

The pedestrians on the streets are lively, and the aftermath of the city's founding anniversary and the opening of the eastern line of the corner still puts the city in the noise at the end of the festival.

In particular, the half-price tickets within a week of the opening celebration made a large number of Jiaocheng people choose to travel and shop here, and the celebration of New Winteria City gave most of the city's residents seven days off.

The raucous and famous shops are packed with all sorts of people, many of which are sold out of all the hot items in the first three days of the festival, and the various lifestyle items and luxury goods that imitate Ash are especially popular.

Truckloads of goods were snatched up as soon as they were unloaded from the long-range floating ship and delivered to the store.

Yes, it's a grab, the teller of a shelf loads the goods on the front foot, and the back is gone.

There are two reasons for this, one is that the passengers have money, and the other is that they feel that they should not miss the opportunity and do not come again, so they take a big advantage

In the past few years, many things have changed, and Ash's life goods, luxury goods, and consumer goods have gradually been accepted by the people of Kakunoshi with the promotion of various media.

After all, the overall leadership in practicality, appearance, aesthetics, and publicity methods, as long as the price is not too outrageous, it is too easy to defeat similar local goods.

At the same time that Jiaocheng was dumped in large quantities, Jiaocheng's local industry and traditional culture also suffered a huge blow, and the number of unemployed people increased dramatically...... Ahem, this will not be expanded, the impact of values brought about by the reform and opening up, the tide of layoffs, and the big bankruptcy or something, in fact, it is the same everywhere.

And they feel that shopping here is a big bargain, but it is a very key point of competition - taxes.

The goods produced in other Echian cities entered Neotonia City as low-tax (3%) goods, which were determined by the decentralized political power structure and ideology of Neotonia, and in fact not many people paid attention to this tax, but more to the additional benefits of the city's prosperity.

Jiaocheng people are still the original feudal lord concept, taxes are the pillar of fiscal revenue, foreign merchants are the fat sheep sent to the door, in the feudal era when the lord owned the whole city as personal property, foreign goods ten taxes five, ten taxes seven are considered benevolent.

"Anyway, this piece is just my city, and I don't want the goods to rot, so you can only sell them here. ”

"What are you afraid of paying more taxes, just increase the price. The untouchables can afford to buy it, but they can't afford to pull it down. ”

Such a concept is widespread, especially since Jiaocheng has long been the only city in the wasteland, and it has naturally become the most important commercial gathering place, and the monopoly position naturally brings high prices.

Five out of ten taxes for foreign goods and three out of ten taxes for internal goods, a tax that seemed excessive to the Eichs, not only did the Horn City and the Wasteland people get used to it, but they even took it for granted, and even thought that it was a low tax set by the city lords who had mercy on the remaining citizens.

In a sense, the terrifying military strength of the Seymour people in Horn City was accumulated little by little.

It's easy to raise taxes, but it's ...... to reduce taxes Hehe, at least most people have only seen tax increases in their lives and have not seen tax cuts, and it is unlikely that they will see them in the future.

With the fall of Sidion, as well as the instability of the situation inside and outside the corner city, the total tax revenue caused by the blow to the internal commerce was reduced, and the ensuing annual increase in military expenditure, the decline in income and the increase in expenditure, in order to maintain balance and stabilize income, it was inevitable to increase the amount of taxes, and at the worst time, the tax reached the point of ten taxes and seven taxes.

No, this is just the beginning, with the loss of power of the city lord faction, internal competition and struggle have reached the level of civil war, and a huge city has now been divided into several forces.

And in the feudal era when the lord was in power, this represented ...... Duplicate tax payments.

It sounds absurd to pay taxes on a commodity once it is bought and sold, but it is true.

The same was true of medieval Europe, where each power had its own territory, and the circulation of foreign goods had to pass through layers of checkpoints, and taxes had to be paid layer by layer, although extremely bad and repetitive, but it was both legal (local royal law) and common.

This can be said to be a devastating blow to commerce, in fact, in the Middle Ages, heavy taxation was originally the first factor in commercial circulation, political chaos will inevitably affect commerce, lost the city lord's corner city, and finally someone calculated that all the checkpoints were completed, and the most fatal time reached the level of ten taxes and twenty-seven.

This is very normal, each territory has its own lord, and they have to raise their own army, how to raise it without taxes, as long as they pass through their own chassis, even the tiger has to chop off its tail, and the goose has to pull out its wings.

What? You don't pass me like this? Then how can you do it? The road is rerouted, and the checkpoints are added to artificially create congestion, and you are also required to change the route.

As a result, just looking at the taxes into the city, the cost of goods has increased by four times, and with the additional expenses (bribes to officials, bodyguards, salaries and pensions, and the daily expenses of the caravan, operating costs), selling it only six times the price is already considered a Buddha's heart, and it is even possible to lose money.

If you really travel a long way from the place of origin........ the price of porcelain and silk in the East in the West may not be able to be calculated by several times or dozens of times.

So, a very absurd scene happened.

For the same Ash daily necessities and consumer goods, the gap between New Tonya City and Corner City can reach more than five times, which is still a common daily necessities, and many East and West Corner Cities have no goods at all.

The competition is cruel, and it is the "hegemon" of the major forces in the current corner city that has made some compromises under the cruel status quo of declining commodity flow, skyrocketing citizen satisfaction, and crazy immigration applications.

But even so, the final tax still reached the level of more than 10 taxes and 15 taxes, and the price difference of imported goods was at least three times, which made the citizens of Jiaocheng full of resentment.

However, when the agreement of the alliance of the three places was signed, there were a series of agreements on immigration and commerce, although some of the terms were destined to not be fulfilled, but these agreements at least ensured the smooth communication of information between the two sides, whether it was civil or official, they always paid attention to the only rival city in the wasteland.

Some people are willing to be cattle and sheep and be fished and meated, not because he was born cowardly, but because he doesn't know what it's like to be a human being, there is no comparison, there is no gap, no dissatisfaction, and no spirit of resistance.

Revolutionaries, rebels, internal warlords and so on, even the evil gods often cross the line to make a profit, and when the situation is becoming more and more unstable and people are panicking, the bigwigs are also more concentrated on their own fishing, and the internal chaos is naturally becoming more and more chaotic.

Fortunately, at least the foundation of Jiaocheng is not thin, and the internal food supply, textiles and clothes can still be self-sufficient, as long as the prices of these daily necessities are still stable and can make people live, then, dissatisfaction is still just dissatisfaction, not hatred that must be exposed.

Ahem, it seems to be far away again, although living is the minimum requirement, but no one will refuse to live better.

As a result, when the price of imported goods in the two places reached more than three times, tourists from Jiaocheng went crazy to start grabbing purchases, especially when there was gossip that the big lords of Jiaocheng planned to pay taxes on the private goods carried by individuals.

And for the Church of Games, this is an opportunity to rise.